The Harvard Classics The Apology etc of Plato, Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 1959 Collier Publishing

This is a very good hardcover. 1959 52nd Printing Collier Published for The Harvard Classics. This copy is very good inside and out. The pages only have a hint of light natural tanning from age and are crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight and features a fine sewn, NOT glued, binding. Red hardcover boards are also very good and feature Veritas design in gold front and gold lettering along spine. There is only very light shelf wear to cover corners/edges. Crown octavo book size or 5.5" x 8.5" with 345 pages and marbled endpapers front and back.

This edition from P.F Collier of The Harvard Classics was published in 1959 and is the 52nd printing of the series. The Harvard Classics were all edited by Charles W. Eliot in a 50 volume set originally published in 1909 and 1910. Charles W. Eliot was the President of Harvard at the time and spoke about the Harvard Classics in speeches, making references to a "3 foot shelf of books" that could afford any reader an education were he to read them all. He was pressed to expand on exactly what books would be included in that "3 foot shelf" and he concluded that one would actually need a 5 foot shelf. No titles were defined at that time, but Colliers implored Eliot to chose 50 books for a 5 foot shelf, they would publish if Eliot would define the books. So The Harvard Classics was born. At the time they were often referred to as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf of Books. Reprinted many times, the final print run from Collier was the 62nd printing.

The copy contains: The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito of Plato as translated by Benjamin Jewett, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus translated by Hastings Crossley and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius as translated by George Long.

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